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Debt’s Grip
Friday, August 15, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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Friday, August 15, 2025
12:00 p.m. (PT)
75 minutes
Virtual: Zoom
1.25 General CLE Credit Available
Please join Berkeley Judicial Institute as Judge Erithe Smith speaks to the authors of Debt’s Grip, Pamela Foohey, Robert Lawless, and Deborah Thorne about their book and insights into consumer bankruptcy.
Read the Debt’s Grip Introduction!
From the publisher’s page:
Debt’s Grip tells the story of financial struggle in the United States. Drawing on original data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a landmark long-term study, the authors use the words of bankruptcy filers themselves to shed light on their battles to keep their homes and their cars, pay for healthcare and higher education, care for their children, find adequate employment, retire, negotiate with debt collectors, and confront discrimination in lending. Laying bare the consequences of risk privatization, this book makes a powerful case for why the United States must confront the structural inequities that cause so many—especially Black families, women, and the elderly—to struggle in today’s economy.
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